Craig v. Maher’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Primerica v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1989), State v. Salmon (1999)
33 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Sheridan v. Planning Board · Phaneuf v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles · Harkins v. Driscoll
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To maintain the appeal, the plaintiffs must (1) have a specific, personal and legal interest in the subject matter of the appeal; (2) sustain that interest throughout the course of the appeal; and (3) be able to obtain some practical benefit or relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.